Announcements
- Check in on map tutorials
- First map tutorial write-ups are due by 2:00 PM Mountain Time Wed/Thurs
- Turn in your map tutorials using the Microsoft Form on the Map Tutorial assignment page
- Readings now up on schedule for remainder of semester!
- Also on content pages for each week
- Additional resources may be posted with lecture slides
- First Voices of GIS guest next Thursday!
- Lee Macholz of Missoula City GIS
Whence Geospatial Data:
All data are spatial
Kyle Bocinsky
FORS350 / GPHY488
(Forestry) Applications of GIS
University of Montana
WA Franke College of Forestry & Conservation
All Data Are Spatial!
- Knowing the where of a phenomenon is fundamental
- Spatial attributes may reflect the nature of phenomena (think: 1854 Cholera Outbreak)
- All data are spatial, but not all data are geospatial
- Spatial data may not be [geo]spatially referenced
Test each other!
Think of a type of data that cannot be [geo]spatial
Spatial data are everywhere
Geospatial Authorities:
Who creates, distributes, and maintains authoritative geodata?
- Open Geospatial Consortium
- Open data standards
- Cloud-native Geospatial Technologies
- The Federal Geographic Data Committee
- Data standards for US Federal geospatial datasets
- Metadata standards
- Create FGDC Compliant Metadata in ArcGIS Pro
FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
FAIR data
Bottom Line
- Use open, accessible, authoritative data
- Keep track of data provenance
- Ensure metadata are standards-compliant
- Record and report operations you perform on data
- Archive new data in federated repositories
Some authoritative geodata resources:
Getting data into ArcGIS Pro
DEMONSTRATION!